Rebecca Elson's guest appearances

Rebecca Elson

Spark My Muse

Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker

Learn Over Lunch

A Paradise of Poems

OwlTail

Reflections on awe and mortality (through the work of Rebecca Elson)

I Eat the Stars | poet and astronomer, Rebecca Elson [SSL 220]

Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp. Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood: No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrained by form. And sometime it’s enough To lie down here on earth Beside our long ancestral bones: To walk across the cobble fields Of our discarded skulls, Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis, Thinking: whatever left these husks Flew off on bright wings.  Twitter：@camelliayang Website: https://www.camelliayang.com/ Sign up for Chiwi Journal monthly newsletter

Sometimes as an antidote To fear of death, I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back, I suck them from the quenching dark Til they are all, all inside me, Pepper hot and sharp. Sometimes, instead, I stir myself Into a universe still young, Still warm as blood: No outer space, just space, The light of all the not yet stars Drifting like a bright mist, And all of us, and everything Already there But unconstrained by form. And sometime it’s enough To lie down here on earth Beside our long ancestral bones: To walk across the cobble fields Of our discarded skulls, Each like a treasure, like a chrysalis, Thinking: whatever left these husks Flew off on bright wings. Twitter：<a href="https://twitter.com/Camelliayang" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@camelliayang</a> Website: <a href="https://www.camelliayang.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.camelliayang.com/</a> Sign up for <a href="https://camelliayang.ck.page/a24471a230" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chiwi Journal</a> monthly newsletter